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The Rest Is Politics

26. BORIS JOHNSON RESIGNS

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

Politics, Government, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Boris Johnson has resigned. Join Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart for this emergency podcast as they react to the news of Johnson's resignation. After a tumultuous few days, Johnson is finally standing down, and Alastair and Rory answer the key questions raised by this landmark announcement. Can Johnson stay on as caretaker? Who are the candidates to replace him? What happens next? Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the rest is politics with me, Rory Stewart and me Astakammal. Well, we're in this

1:03.4

very, very strange moment, so we're talking to you just after the first rumors have come

1:09.0

out of Downing Street that Boris Johnson is definitely going, but he hasn't yet appeared

1:13.0

at the podium to make his announcement. We're definitely in the dying days. I mean, it's

1:17.6

been the most, I'd say, I don't know what you think has. Probably the most bizarre, surreal

1:24.1

36 hours ever in British politics. I think that's right, because Johnson yet again has tried

1:29.5

to show that the normal rules of political logic and gravity don't apply to him. If you

1:35.6

compare it with when Margaret Thatcher went, there was a procession of cabinet ministers

1:40.2

to her room. I remember I was hanging around at the end of the corridor. She did in the

1:46.7

House of Commons office and there was a procession of cabinet ministers and it was obvious.

1:51.6

The writing was in the wall. Everybody saw, I remember she had a very nice PPS called

1:56.3

Mark Lennox Boyd. I think, yeah, Mark Lennox Boyd. I remember bumping into him and I could

1:59.9

tell in his eyes that he knew and I said, she's gone. He just nodded and walked on. Whereas

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